Comparison

Retelle vs Draftline

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Retelle

Features
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Retelle will help you curate your life events and stories. With a personal timeline you will never forget events, people or places. Too often it happens that amazing memories are forgotten since we rely on remembering them by accidental association while talking about similar stories or events. With Retelle you can go back and relive the moments and experiences of your life, make sure you are not forgetting anything and very easily reconstruct the timeline of all important memories. It is easy to forget these events because we don't think about the very often and we believe this app will help you with that. With Retelle you can go through your timeline and refresh your memory before going out with friends so you don't miss any important experiences that happened. For example, meeting a friend that you've seen a year ago, you can easily scroll through events from the last year and retelling them becomes much easier. Anything that you find interesting can be put on a timeline: stories, pictures, contacts, e-mails, links to news, videos, images that you found and want to save them so you can share your experience with others. At this point App has the essential features to start documenting your life and in the future I will be adding more capabilities like: searching and filtering of your timeline, adding locations and tags, adding multiple images and videos, summaries for a time period and much more. Light/dark mode, font size and some other settings are read from the phone and cannot be changed from inside the app. In the future there will be an option to change these settings. Most importantly: all the data is yours! Every piece of data is stored on the local file system and no one except for you has access to it. For more information or feature requests feel free to contact me at: retelle.info@gmail.com

About

Draftline

This app allows you to write and edit Markdown files directly within your GitHub repositories. It preserves your original content exactly, works offline, and integrates with pull requests for a seamless workflow.

Highlights
  • GitHub repository file system
  • Clean Markdown editor
  • Preserves original content
  • Offline editing
  • Pull request integration
  • Native SwiftUI app
Features
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Draftline is a Markdown editor that uses your GitHub repositories as its file system. Open a repo, pick a branch, write in a clean editor, and commit when you are done. On iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is built for people who publish from a repository: blogs on Jekyll, Hugo, Astro or Eleventy, documentation sites, and plain notes in git. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Bytes you did not touch come back byte-identical. Edit one paragraph and the commit shows one paragraph. Frontmatter, raw HTML, Liquid tags and anything else the editor cannot render are kept exactly as written and shown as chips, never rewritten. • Real commits on real branches. Edits are kept per branch until you commit them with your own message, and a commit is refused when the branch moved under you, so nothing is overwritten silently. • Works offline. The last repository, branch, file tree and open file come back from the cache at launch. Edits wait until you are back online. • Knows about pull requests. See the branch's pull request, its checks and deployments, and open the preview site in one tap. • Nothing leaves your device except to GitHub. No analytics, no server of ours, no account to create. SIGN IN Sign in with GitHub through the Draftline GitHub App, or paste a fine-grained personal access token. Your credential is stored in the system Keychain. Draftline is a native SwiftUI app.

Screenshots

Retelle4 screens
Draftline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Draftline at none against Retelle's shown. Retelle's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Retelle ships an update weekly, Draftline every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Retelle versus Draftline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetelleDraftline
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBernard LekajCecil Woebker

In-app purchases

None

Retelle

No in-app purchases

None

Draftline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Retelle free?
Retelle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Draftline free?
Draftline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Retelle or Draftline have ads?
Retelle shows ads; Draftline does not.
Which is updated more often, Retelle or Draftline?
Retelle ships an update weekly, and Draftline every 2 weeks. Most recently, Retelle was updated on October 30, 2026 and Draftline on October 26, 2026.

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